50% exp with additional student fodder would allow for a more seamless experience.
I am questing through zones faster than I can imagine. While, yeah sure it’s great after you’ve had many alts, but that’s what the student fodder gives you as a option.
People who think this is like retail leveling haven’t played retail in over a decade. They just have no idea what they’re talking about at all.
Leveling in Dragonflight is significantly faster than SoD leveling, even with a 100% buff. Less time per level. Travel is massively faster for rapid questing and you have fast easy access to leveling dungeons without having to look for a group manually (sometimes nearly instant as a tank or healer). Hearthstones have a much lower cooldown and we have multiple hearthstones to different locations and a portal system for rapid access to many parts of the world. You get XP for gathering ore and herbs. You get XP in battlegrounds.
I didn’t expect to be out-leveling quests while doing basic quest zone leveling in a classic-style system but here we are.
Not entirely unhappy with it, was a little annoyed when the opposite would happen (finish a batch of quests and new ones were all a few levels above character’s level so had to run dungeons or farm mobs for a while until the quests were more palatable).
I’m ok with it. I have a nostalgia/fondness for classic, but with limited play time the massive leveling grind tends to be too much for me so I typically stick to retail. But SoD is a lot less daunting especially now.
But at the same time it is a little odd leveling so fast. Like I’m leveling an UD. Been going through Silverpine Forest. Feel like I might end up hardly even touching anything in the Barrens because I’m leveling so fast. I actually went out there to switch it up but all the quests at least to start with are so low level.
20% rested XP on a 30min CD it’s terrible. Should have no CD imo.
Also @OP this XP buff is the only thing SoD has, hanging on for it’s dear life. And it’s not only a Seasonal server, it’s phased in segments. So XP buff is actually perfect for SoD. If we could go 1-60 from launch, then I think the XP buff ruins the game